Galbally - Brief history and information on the village.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Galbally "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Galbally
We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Galbally Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Galbally
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Galbally There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Galbally
"When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Galbally It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Galbally
The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Galbally A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Galbally
If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Galbally "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Galbally
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Galbally "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Galbally
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Galbally Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Galbally
It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Galbally "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Galbally
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Galbally "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Galbally
This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Galbally "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Galbally
